Re: Name that feeling!

[Anonymous]

Funny you mention the addict thing. I’ve never been tempted to take drugs. My brain was always weird enough to keep me interested and it would have disappointed my father, which is not something a decent human being could do on purpose.

My therapist gave me an old book on Adult ADD and it talked about meds. One odd but interesting section was about cocaine. It said (after noting that cocaine was illegal), that it just makes an ADDer more organized! I laughed out loud when I read it–imagining a very neat and well organized crack house.

Funny:10 years of college, grad school and law school, working in a high-stress job in NYC and I never felt the slightest urge to try drugs. One paragraph in a book about ADD and now I’m intellectually curious. (Don’t worry, I don’t even know how to get free basic cable, much less illicit narcotics.)

Anyway, it’s apparently a common reaction. My therapist said that a lot of people in rehab find out they have ADD because they describe how cocaine made them act and a sharp counselor mentions ADD.

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